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Author-Name: Michael P. Keane
Author-Email: michael.keane@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Title: How the Allocation of Children’s Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development
Abstract: The allocation of children’s time among different activities may be important
for their cognitive and non-cognitive development. In our work we exploit time
use diaries from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to study the effect
of time allocation across a wide range of alternative activities. By doing so we
characterize the trade-off between the activities to which a child is exposed. On the
one hand, our results suggest that time spent in educational activities, particularly
with parents, is the most productive input for cognitive skill development. On the
other hand, non-cognitive skills appear insensitive to alternative time allocations.
Instead, these skills are greatly affected by the mother’s parenting style.
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Length: 50 pages
Creation-Date: 2012-10-16
Number: 2012-W09
File-URL: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/2012/FioriniKeaneOct2012.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1209